We've seen many worms now that pretty much were just proof of concept things. Nothing detrimental was happening, other than the worm spreading itself.
This won't go on forever, especially as these things become easier to use. Eventually someone with reason to want to do harm (say, oh, a terrorist) will pick up on this readily available tool and beat the crap out of the internet with it.
How many cable modems/DSL connections are there out there attached to 95/98/98SE machines?
Not while John Ashcroft has any sort of power. The man's paranoia (right or wrong, sometimes both) knows no bounds.
Can you honestly imagine rules being loosened right now to allow for rockets/missiles being launched in the US under any circumstances while they are *not* under strict government control?
I heard something about them even trying to put a stop to the small-time (Estes) rocketry.
After playing Ridge Racer (the first one) for a couple of weeks, it took me about a year to not panic when driving through narrow lanes surrounded by jersey barriers.
I was just waiting for the car to smack into one like they suddenly do in the game.
I knew I'd been playing too much when, while driving to work, I saw an unattended red corvette by the side of the road (yeah, go ahead and sing your little Prince song) and I actually looked around for cops.
Obviously I'd never actually steal a car, but for a second there....
I have yet to play a game that can rival the feeling I used to get when the Hall Monster would appear in the room, with the "voom-voom-voom-voom" sound...
It's an art, a craft, it's not even a damn business.
It just amazes me that record companies are watching their sales drop like a bucket down a well, yet not only are they still forcing the same mediocre pablum at us, they're developing software to make it MORE of the same.
Lord. This software should actually be called "More Of The Same."
Give us something worth f*cking listening to, and we'll buy it. Keep feeding us the same crap over and over again and you'll have noone to blame but yourselves for your losses.
...until they kick in your door and drag you off to their headquarters and interrogate you within an inch of your life.
But seriously, if you're one of those people who is always paranoid that someone is watching you, just imagine how boring that poor person's life must be.
At this point I've decided that even if there are people assigned to watch me, I feel more sorry for them than I would for myself.
Another cool side effect of this could be the standardization of 3d models in some games. Then people could build one model of themselves and insert it into the games they play.
Sure, each game could render them differently, but it would be nice if there was a spec that could be followed. Each game could load the player's model, then enhance it however they see fit.
Along those same lines, if you just enter search terms into the address bar in Phoenix, it's like entering your terms in google and hitting "I'm feeling lucky."
They've gotten SO much right with phoenix that I'm hoping soon they'll implement something that prevents sites from resizing your browser.
Or, since I'm just dreaming anyway, I hope that society evolves to the point where people realize that noone actually WANTS their browsers to fill their whole screens spontaneously, and they'll give up on the practice.
Not wanting to be the death of nice little old ladies, I created a separate version for her that takes out the time-based element of the game.
I wish more puzzle game developers would consider this with their games. I play Bejeweled constantly on my Palm, but it's only fun on Easy mode. It gives you a whole different challenge with a puzzle game. In Bejeweled the goal becomes management of the game pieces available, and whole new strategies for the game develop.
We actually started sending our high score files to her whenever we'd beat even one of her scores, and she wouldn't sleep until she'd wiped our names off the list again.
Gamers tend to think that games will only be classics if they're adopted by gamers. That's why they're so surprised when deer hunting games outsell Quake.
My 64 year-old mother got hooked on Snood, and got a copy for everyone she knew. She doesn't know what kind of video card she has, she doesn't know the bus speed of her RAM, but she'd be up until 3 in the morning trying to beat her high scores.
I don't understand the picture of the guy who is airborne with the streamers flying straight up above his head.
Now, those rotors would have to be pushing air straight down at a ridiculous rate to lift the whole thing off the ground, so wouldn't those streamers get sucked into the rotors?
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One is SP3, the other 2 are SP4. Well, one *was* SP3, they're all SP4 now.
I've hit it from 3 different machines, all with different levels of patches installed, and the fix still doesn't pop up.
I just don't understand the logic behind this. Is it part of the Trusted Computing Initiative?
We've seen many worms now that pretty much were just proof of concept things. Nothing detrimental was happening, other than the worm spreading itself.
This won't go on forever, especially as these things become easier to use. Eventually someone with reason to want to do harm (say, oh, a terrorist) will pick up on this readily available tool and beat the crap out of the internet with it.
How many cable modems/DSL connections are there out there attached to 95/98/98SE machines?
Not while John Ashcroft has any sort of power. The man's paranoia (right or wrong, sometimes both) knows no bounds.
Can you honestly imagine rules being loosened right now to allow for rockets/missiles being launched in the US under any circumstances while they are *not* under strict government control?
I heard something about them even trying to put a stop to the small-time (Estes) rocketry.
After playing Ridge Racer (the first one) for a couple of weeks, it took me about a year to not panic when driving through narrow lanes surrounded by jersey barriers.
I was just waiting for the car to smack into one like they suddenly do in the game.
I knew I'd been playing too much when, while driving to work, I saw an unattended red corvette by the side of the road (yeah, go ahead and sing your little Prince song) and I actually looked around for cops.
Obviously I'd never actually steal a car, but for a second there....
I have yet to play a game that can rival the feeling I used to get when the Hall Monster would appear in the room, with the "voom-voom-voom-voom" sound...
Very simple, extremely effective.
....but only if they can control it.
Does he think it's cool? Does he hate it?
Either Carmack, really.
I need a PDA. I need a cellphone. I don't want to carry 2 bricks around in my pockets, and deal with 2 batteries at all times, LIon or not...
Gadgets are very cool, and it's nice to have shell access and your unix commands in your pocket, but... What's Linux without network access?
If there aren't security patches in the kernel, why upgrade a stable server?
If I've got redhat 6.2 servers with security patches installed that are running 24/7 with no hiccups, what's the point of upgrading?
Looks like someone else is thinking the same thing.
It's an art, a craft, it's not even a damn business.
It just amazes me that record companies are watching their sales drop like a bucket down a well, yet not only are they still forcing the same mediocre pablum at us, they're developing software to make it MORE of the same.
Lord. This software should actually be called "More Of The Same."
Give us something worth f*cking listening to, and we'll buy it. Keep feeding us the same crap over and over again and you'll have noone to blame but yourselves for your losses.
...until they kick in your door and drag you off to their headquarters and interrogate you within an inch of your life.
But seriously, if you're one of those people who is always paranoid that someone is watching you, just imagine how boring that poor person's life must be.
At this point I've decided that even if there are people assigned to watch me, I feel more sorry for them than I would for myself.
...is they've modeled real mountains into the game. That's something I've *always* wanted to see in a snowboarding game.
They've done Stratton, Breckenridge and Jay Peak.
Another cool side effect of this could be the standardization of 3d models in some games. Then people could build one model of themselves and insert it into the games they play.
Sure, each game could render them differently, but it would be nice if there was a spec that could be followed. Each game could load the player's model, then enhance it however they see fit.
Along those same lines, if you just enter search terms into the address bar in Phoenix, it's like entering your terms in google and hitting "I'm feeling lucky."
They've gotten SO much right with phoenix that I'm hoping soon they'll implement something that prevents sites from resizing your browser.
Or, since I'm just dreaming anyway, I hope that society evolves to the point where people realize that noone actually WANTS their browsers to fill their whole screens spontaneously, and they'll give up on the practice.
Not only can you hook it into JBuilder or IDEA, you can use it to set off your unit testing. I think there's even profiling available as well.
...just buy an Atari Jaguar.
I mean seriously, can't you do the math?
...how long is the line of cars full of moms waiting to drive their kids back home to their basements?
I kid, I kid.
Please, come troll at the site then. It's a bitch to get discussion forums going.
Not wanting to be the death of nice little old ladies, I created a separate version for her that takes out the time-based element of the game.
I wish more puzzle game developers would consider this with their games. I play Bejeweled constantly on my Palm, but it's only fun on Easy mode. It gives you a whole different challenge with a puzzle game. In Bejeweled the goal becomes management of the game pieces available, and whole new strategies for the game develop.
We actually started sending our high score files to her whenever we'd beat even one of her scores, and she wouldn't sleep until she'd wiped our names off the list again.
Gamers tend to think that games will only be classics if they're adopted by gamers. That's why they're so surprised when deer hunting games outsell Quake.
My 64 year-old mother got hooked on Snood, and got a copy for everyone she knew. She doesn't know what kind of video card she has, she doesn't know the bus speed of her RAM, but she'd be up until 3 in the morning trying to beat her high scores.
Oh, it is already available on cell phones and PDAs.
I don't understand the picture of the guy who is airborne with the streamers flying straight up above his head.
Now, those rotors would have to be pushing air straight down at a ridiculous rate to lift the whole thing off the ground, so wouldn't those streamers get sucked into the rotors?
It doesn't make sense to me.